You are invited to the Sunday Service on March 15, 2026 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
You can worship live on ZOOM by clicking the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9658816441 Meeting ID: 965 881 6441
You can also watch Sunday services at your convenience by going to our website “watsonville1stumc.org” and click YouTube or Facebook. Each Sunday worship will be uploaded on Sunday afternoon for your viewing.
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Sunday, March 15, 2026, 10 am
Remembrance of Pastor Robin will be held next Sunday, March 15, 10 am Service during “Joys & Concerns”. This will be an opportunity for those who would like to share their thoughts, appreciations or stories about Rev. Robin Mathews-Johnson.
Pastor Robin served the California-Nevada Conference, pastoring at Watsonville First United Methodist Church from 1999 through 2021 for 22 years, and Fresno Wesley UMC until December 2024. After a battle with cancer, Rev. Robin Mathews-Johnson died on November 14, 2025. A memorial service was held on January 17, 2026, at Community Church of the Monterey Peninsula.
Children’s Time “When You Lose Someone You Love” Pastor John
Special Music Han-O-back-nyon (500 Years of Sorrow) John Song
(Traditional Korean folk song of lamentation)
Message “Living Through Loss and Grief” Rev. John Song
To be human is to know grief, whether for the loss of a relationship, a loved one, or your health. Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. Grief happens. It has many forms and we all experience it differently. We will explore together “Living Through Loss and Grief.”
“Anything that is worth loving will break your heart.”
~ David Whyte, Irish poet
“Grief is a last and final translation of an act of love.
Grieving is the last act of loving someone.
And this last act never ends because you can never stop loving the other.”
~ Ocean Vuong, the Vietnamese-American poet, essayist and novelist
Psalms 130:1-2
Help, God—I’ve hit rock bottom!
Master, hear my cry for help!
Listen hard! Open your ears!
Listen to my cries for mercy.
Psalms 13:1-3
How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
How long must I bear pain in my soul
and have sorrow in my heart all day long?
Consider and answer me, O Lord my God!
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,
Matthew 5:4
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”
